POW Chapter 4: Intersection of Gender and Ethnicity

Gendered racism: a form of oppression based both on gender and race/ethnicity

People of color: umbrella term to refer to people

Latinx: a Latin American person, unmarked by gender

• Umbrella term that is

Asian Americans: Americans of Asian descent. Includes people from Indian subcontinent, people of Asian heritage are groups with people of Pacific Islander heritage.

European Americans:

Concept of race: a socially constructed system of human classification, once considered a biological concept referring to discrete and exclusive groups of people with common physical features.

Problems with race as a biological concept: the assumptions that racial groups are distinct and exclusive

Ethnic Group:

European Americans are the norm: unjustified inference from an all-White sample to all people. The experiences of people of color are then marginalized and made invisible. White represent “people.” and everyone else becomes “subcultures”

Bem Sex Role Inventory:

Biased observations:

Bias in interpretation of results: European American are the norm, so then behaviors and experiences of people of color are the deficit.

Conceptual equivalence: In multicultural research, the construct measured by a scale has the same meaning in all cultures being studied.

Translational equivalence:

Racial microaggressions: subtle insults directed at people of color, consciously or unconsciously.

Core values of Asian Americans:

Bicultural competence: